RTE Guide Movie quiz help?

Can I ask for help with two questions?

1. Which Irish actor spent all of November staring down from a six storey poster on Dublin's Liberty Hall?

2. The father of which Fair City actress was a marvelous character actor who delivered telling performances in a series of movies in the 1950's and 60's opposite luminaries such as Michael Redgrave, Christopher Lee and Marlon Brando.

I feel the first question is unfair to those of us outside Dublin. Any help much appreciated. Thanks for any help.

AnonoBoy

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Can I ask for help with two questions?

1. Which Irish actor spent all of November staring down from a six storey poster on Dublin's Liberty Hall?

Liam Neeson.

39steps

Does anyone know who this actress is?

bnt

Looks to me like a young Grace Kelly.

chin_grin

http://www.tineye.com/

SVG

Virginia Mayo, maybe.

bnt

It's the RTE Quiz? Then there's got to be an Irish connection - which still makes me think of Grace Kelly, whose Irish roots were well-known.

brandonbay

Catherine Byrne (her father was Eddie Byrne)
Have you the answers to 17 and 26 please?

brandonbay

brandonbay wrote: »

Catherine Byrne (her father was Eddie Byrne)
Have you the answers to 17 and 26 please?

I have Aisling O'Neill for that one (her father was Chris O'Neill who was in the Riordans).
Q17 is "The Long Day Closes". If you do a Google image search with it's name the exact pic shows up.
I have no clue of Q26 I'm afraid. I think it might be Veronica Lake or even Diane Cilento (she was married to Sean Connery).

39steps

NOt sure myself! Maybe an atypical photo of Veronica Lake, but am open to correction.

I've done some research and I think Catherine Byrne is a better answer than Aisling O'Neill! Thanks for that. So just Q26 left to answer! Can anybody identify this actress:

SVG

39steps wrote: »

NOt sure myself! Maybe an atypical photo of Veronica Lake, but am open to correction.

Could well be. It's hard to tell without the typical hair though!

brandonbay

Definitely Eddie Byrne. He was in 100s of movies.
Virginia Mayo!! or Grace Kelly No.
I'm beginning to think it's a more modern actress made up to look
like someone from the Grace Kelly era.
What do you think?
Thanks for 17.

brandonbay

brandonbay wrote: »

Definitely Eddie Byrne. He was in 100s of movies.
Virginia Mayo!! or Grace Kelly No.
I'm beginning to think it's a more modern actress made up to look
like someone from the Grace Kelly era.
What do you think?
Thanks for 17.

I'm completely stumped. I posted the actress pic on the IMDb forums, Yahoo Answers and theanswerbank.co.uk. No luck. Funnily enough when you say it could be a modern day actress the answers on Yahoo Answers said it was Gretchen Mol. I seriously doubt it though.

I also tried TinEye and GazoPa without success. I emailed William Gallagher who was the BBC Ceefax film critic and he didn't know. I posted the pic on the Empire magazine forums. No answers.

The problem is if indeed it is a 50s/60s era actress then that's well before my time. I'm keeping an eye on theanswerbank.co.uk in the hope it'll get answered when other people are doing and answering the quiz over the holidays.

Nolanger

Mai Zetterling?

JP Liz V1

Deleted User wrote: »

I've done some research and I think Catherine Byrne is a better answer than Aisling O'Neill! Thanks for that. So just Q26 left to answer! Can anybody identify this actress:

A blonde Olivia de Havilland

brandonbay

Anyone come up with any more names.
I showed it to a friend and she thought it was Aisling O'Neill!
from Fair City.
I've never seen the programme, so can't really comment.

brandonbay

brandonbay wrote: »

Anyone come up with any more names.
I showed it to a friend and she thought it was Aisling O'Neill!
from Fair City.
I've never seen the programme, so can't really comment.

From the RTE website:



She's not even blonde to begin with. I think I'm gonna go with Veronica Lake personally.

Sad Professor

Yeah, I'm going go with Veronica Lake as well. It looks just like her. And during the war she took part in a government campaign to get female factory workers to pin their hair back (it was getting stuck in the machines), so it's quite likely that she was photographed like this at some point.

brandonbay

Wigs! Hairdye! Make-up artists can change appearances quite easily.:cool:

Nolanger

It's not Veronica Lake. Looks more like a European actress?

cdemt1

Hi stuck on RTE Movie Quiz question no.10 Anybody know the actor's name please Anybody figure out the actress name in question no.26 yet

JP Liz V1

cdemt1 wrote: »

Hi stuck on RTE Movie Quiz question no.10 Anybody know the actor's name please Anybody figure out the actress name in question no.26 yet

Robert Knepper I think

Mikey23

cdemt1 wrote: »

Hi stuck on RTE Movie Quiz question no.10 Anybody know the actor's name please

Thought it was John Cazale?

I'm kicking myself over this one already, but the other picture question - the young lad in the cinema, no. 17 - which film is that?

Mikey23

Mikey23 wrote: »

I'm kicking myself over this one already, but the other picture question - the young lad in the cinema, no. 17 - which film is that?

The answer is on the first page of this thread. :rolleyes:

rednik

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

A blonde Olivia de Havilland

I think it is her sister Joan Fontaine probably taken from Rebecca.

LMN3

It's Valerie Hobson, an English actress who starred in "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets". She has dark hair, but must have been blonde at this stage in her career.

If you don't believe me, Google her name in Images and you will find the picture on page 10!

Thanks to all the contributors for the other answers.

Sad Professor

Good work.

Here's the image:


Found it here.

Tricky one though, since that is not how she generally looked.

cdemt1

NICE ONE Spent AGES looking for this one didn't know there were that many blonde Hollywood actresses from that era:) Thanks a million and good luck to everyone

LMN3

LMN3 wrote: »

It's Valerie Hobson, an English actress who starred in "Great Expectations" and "Kind Hearts and Coronets". She has dark hair, but must have been blonde at this stage in her career.

If you don't believe me, Google her name in Images and you will find the picture on page 10!

Thanks to all the contributors for the other answers.

Awesome! Never heard of her! Would never have got her in a million years. Don't know what I'm going to do now since I sent off an entry with Veronica Lake! I hope multiple entries don't disqualify. Many thanks.

Kewpie

I've tried everywhere else and can't find the answer to Question 13, which football team does Colin Farrell support in Veronica Guerin. I thought it was Man Utd as that's the team that she supports in the film and they talk about Eric Cantona, but someone told me it was Shamrock Rovers and was Colin Farrell's little private joke. Does anyone know for sure?

Thanks in advance.

Nolanger

Deleted User wrote: »

Awesome! Never heard of her!

She was John Profumo's wife in the Christine Keeler scandal. Very attractive actress.

Kewpie

Kewpie wrote: »

I've tried everywhere else and can't find the answer to Question 13, which football team does Colin Farrell support in Veronica Guerin. I thought it was Man Utd as that's the team that she supports in the film and they talk about Eric Cantona, but someone told me it was Shamrock Rovers and was Colin Farrell's little private joke. Does anyone know for sure?

Thanks in advance.

I had Man Utd after reading the script. I just downloaded the film after seeing your post and it has to be Man Utd. He's only wearing a red t-shirt and leather jacket so there's no suggestion he's a Shamrock Rovers fan. All he does is talk about Cantona. It has to be United!

Kewpie

I don't know how to do the Thanks from thing, but thank you! I think I have all the answers now. I don't know why I'm excited because I don't even want the DVDs, it's just a tradition in our house to do it every year.

Good luck to everyone!

Kewpie

Kewpie wrote: »

I don't know how to do the Thanks from thing, but thank you! I think I have all the answers now. I don't know why I'm excited because I don't even want the DVDs, it's just a tradition in our house to do it every year.

Good luck to everyone!

Same here! The prize is a little better this year (remember the year with the luggage!?!?) but it's more about the annual feeling of completing it! I actually won the dvds two years ago.

exaisle

Is there, I wonder, an error in question 15?

I think I have all of the answers anyhow....I'm considering posting them here because I've just realised that part of the prize is a Jedward DVD.

All in favour say "aye"....

Really Michael/RTE.....is that the best you can do???

jackiepryan

Hi,
She is / was Valerie Hobson.

johntommy

Nolanger wrote: »

She was John Profumo's wife in the Christine Keeler scandal. Very attractive actress.

She was born in Northern Ireland and appeared in Bride of Frankenstein in 1935.

eisiepeg

Deleted User wrote: »

I've done some research and I think Catherine Byrne is a better answer than Aisling O'Neill! Thanks for that. So just Q26 left to answer! Can anybody identify this actress:

Actress is Valerie Hobson

eisiepeg

39steps wrote: »

Does anyone know who this actress is?

Yes the actress is Valerie Hobson

Am I right that it said in the RTE Guide the answers would be on the rte website today? I think it said the 6th. I can't check for sure as it's been dumped. If I'm right then RTE have done their annual "give a date for the answers and never deliver" promise. :rolleyes:

LMN3

The Guide says the answers will be on their website on Monday the 10th. Although going by previous years I'm not going to hold my breath...